More than 2 million views are tallied on a single one of BYU religion Professor John Hilton III’s “Teaching with ‘The Chosen’” video clips .
Together, the few dozen videos in Hilton’s “Teaching with ‘The Chosen’” series have garnered millions more views. The video-snippet series started as a simple teaching method to connect his students with the New Testament in an original way. But their reach has extended far beyond his classroom.
Since posting his first video in the series nearly three years ago, Hilton has interacted with religious educators, preachers, pastors and others who have used the clips in their own lessons, sermons and Bible studies.
“I made those clips to help me in my own classroom teaching, but then I realized there’s a lot of people out there that are going to als